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*If you want to skip to the food pictures, they are after the jump. I mean, if you want to. Just Saying.

On a recent trip to Paris, I began calling for a reservation to the famed bistro weeks before my departure date. Only to be met with a large french sigh of nothing. Not one table for any of the days were were in the city of lights. Not easily swayed I continued calling to check for cancellations, the person on the phone enventually took pity and informed me that if I show up at 9:30pm there are a few tables on a first come first serve basis for a second seating. Ex-squeeze me? Baking powder? Also, in that second seating we would still be able to order the full tasting menu. Merci Beau-cu-yah! Done and done. Upon arriving in Paris, we still tried to weasel a reservation through friends and our hotel concierge but fell short…again. Taking the phone advice in hand, a decision was made to just go for it. Or as an old coach so eloquently put it, the ‘F##k It’ technique. We were going to get into the ever impossible Le Chateaubriand, sans a reservation, on a Saturday night. Continue reading →